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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo Is Assassinated (1961)
Trujillo was a military strongman who seized control of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled it as a dictator for the next 30 years. He renamed the capital after himself and forced all citizens to join his political party. He brutally suppressed dissent and ordered the infamous 1937 Parsley Massacre, in which up to 30,000 Haitians living near the Dominican border were murdered. In 1961, Trujillo was ambushed and shot to death by seven men.

That is some weird history.

On This Date:
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor

It will never return. Yorktown rests on the bottom of the Pacific off of Midway not far from four Japanese carriers. The US carriers sank three of the four Japanese carriers but a strike by Hiryu's planes got Yorktown before Hiryu was sunk as well. 

Took like 3 different times to do it. When the Zeke's finally returned to finish off the US fleet they thought it was another ship because of the pounding they gave it earlier - certain it(Yorktown) had sunk. Turns out the the gallant insightful effort of the crew and state of the art fire suppresion systems kept her sea worthy even after the 2nd aeriel attack and it took a IJN Sub to administer the coup de gras later on with torpedoes. She could take a punch,they reported back to HQ they had sunk a 2nd US carrier - oops. But because of the valient efforts of the men aboard many had successfully been transferred off. There was another ship accompanying right next to her that was sunk also whose name escapes me right now. RIP to the old souls in service

Hamman, a destroyer. It was literally blown in half by a torpedo. Hamman was alongside Yorktown assisting with firefighting and efforts to save Yorktown. I think Hamman had more casualties than Yorktown. 

Really sad fact:
Hamman's depth charges exploded at their preset depths as the ship sank and the concussion waves from the exploding depth charges killed a lot of men in the water. 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Copyright Act of 1790 Signed into US Law (1790)
After the US Constitution was ratified in 1788, one of the first issues that the fledgling government faced was the lack of a copyright law. Without it, Congress would be swamped with individual petitions for protection from piracy. Modeled on Britain's Statute of Anne, the Copyright Act of 1790 was soon signed into law by President Washington. Instituted to encourage learning by securing US authors the sole rights to their work for 14-year periods,

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet, 8,645 sailors are killed in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1790 US copyright law enacted

1868 First Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1879 First electric railway opens at the Berlin Trade Exposition

1885 Dr John Harvey Kellogg of Battle Creek, Michigan files application for patent for "flaked cereal, and process of making same", controversially excluding his younger brother Will Keith Kellogg

1889 Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Johnston, Pennsylvania when the South Fork Dam, located on the Little Conemaugh River fails

1890 Ulm Minster, in Ulm, Germany, the tallest church in the world with a steeple 161.5m high, is finally completed, after foundation stone laid in 1377

1891 Work on Trans-Siberian railway begins


1907 Taxis first begin operating in New York City

1914 Chicago White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleveland Indians, 6-1

1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet, 8,645 sailors are killed in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI.

1916 HMS Invincible explodes after taking fire during the Battle of Jutland, killing 1026 officers including Rear-Admiral Hood - only 6 crew members survive

1942 German Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury, England

1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons)

1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month


1948 Canadian-American League Schenectady Blue Jays pitcher Tommy Lasorda strikes out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers (in 15 innings), and knocks in the winning run

1964 SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)

1977 Trans-Alaska oil pipeline completed, one of the world's largest pipeline systems

2023 NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects at its first open meeting highlights stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data (mysterious radio signals turned out to be a local microwave) [1]

2024 Trillions of periodical cicadas (Magicicada) emerge together in the US for the first time in 221 years, brood XIX (Great Southern Brood) after 13 years and brood XIII after 17 years

Ohio State was the best team that year. 

Perhaps but you or I wouldn't have bet the ranch on the Silver & Gray after the Michigan Game,would we? And they ended up with the hardware but someone can always rise from the ashes like the Phoenix in the Bowl/Post season. They prolly would have been the favorites going in that season but as we've seen this past year nothings etched  in stone